Books about HIV/AIDS. Both contemporary and historical. Emphasis on intersectionality.
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last updated July, 2026
A Promise to Remember: The Names Project Book of Letters
Joe Brown
Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
Peter Staley
Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality
Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Funeral Diva
Pamela Sneed
Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival
Sean Strub
To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS
Royles
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
David Wojnarowicz
Keith Haring Journals
Keith Haring
The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS
Helen C. Epstein
Stitching a Revolution: The Making of an Activist
Cleve Jones
Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS
Deborah B. Gould
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Paul Monette
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
Sarah Schulman
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
Lou Sullivan
Blood Loss: A Love Story of AIDS, Activism, and Art
Keiko Lane
Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS
Martin Duberman
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness
Trevor Hoppe
Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care
Marty Fink
After Silence: A History of AIDS through Its Images
Avram Finkelstein
Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
Joseph Osmundson
Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs
Ina Park
AIDS and Its Metaphors
Susan Sontag
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
Richard A. McKay
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
Jack Lowery
Fight AIDS!: How Activism, Art, and Protest Changed the Course of a Deadly Epidemic and Reshaped a Nation
Michael G. Long
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
Steven W. Thrasher
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